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Alienware 15 R3 2016 Gpu heating issue
Hi guys, i recently got this Alienware 15 R3 laptop from my uncle and this is 2016 model which has 17 6700hq with gtx 1060 6gb. This laptop's gpu seems to be overheating sometimes even on idle state with temperature around 85 to 90+ and if i do gaming on it the temperature could only go around 90c with around low and med settings. I recently repaste it in local computer service shop but it remains the same. The shopkeeper told it should be some problems regarding to the software and he wants me to reformat it. But reformating just doesn't help too. I even downgrade the bios version but it still gets power and thermal throttled with 90c plus while gaming. I have choice buying a good laptop cooler and repasting it to the liquid metal thermal paste. Any of you guys advice and if everyone facing the same problems?
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Posted December 26th, 2019 06:00
Do you think repasting could solve the problem bcz the gpu is running hot over 90c eventhough opening normal window apps like Google chrome.
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Posted December 26th, 2019 08:00
Hi
Have you checked System Health? I mean has ePSA Diagnostics (fully or at least for CPU, Video card and fans) been run? I suspect you have, haven't you? And what?
You already wrote that you performed BIOS roll back. I still keep on my hard disk previous version 1.7.0, 1.6.0 and 1.5.0. I can send to your e-mail if you need.
After I had applied metal liquid (Conductonaut Thermal Grizzly) I was observing temperature dropping even 20 degrees. But remember the metal liquid is getting dry and it's sometimes hard to clean
see on my CPU, GPU and heatsink. Finally I was able to clean CPU and GPU but mat/patina remained on the heatsink
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Posted December 26th, 2019 15:00
Hi, thank you for your reply. I remember doing this diagnostic test in one of my other dell laptop last time. But I am not sure how to get into this in this Alienware laptop. Pls guide me
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Posted December 26th, 2019 22:00
Hi
Restart laptop and press F12,choose Diagnostics
Everything here https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln116413/running-epsa-built-in-diagnostics-on-your-alienware-system?lang=en#toc1
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Posted December 27th, 2019 02:00
Thank you, btw do you think repasting with a conductonaut would be the best choice and what was the reason for you to repaste it using liquid metal??
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Posted December 27th, 2019 06:00
Hi
I applied liquid metal from pure curiosity.So many users used Conductonaut and my laptop was out of warranty period already, so I wanted to try. Afterwards a few tests were carried out by me and I was impressed less temperature. But to avoid any damage of CPU or GPU I made up my mind to re-paste again and I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut.
Remember - whatever you do it's on your own risk.
What about health of your system? Have you executed ePSA diagnostics? First of all you have to find out what the reason is of high temperatures.
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Posted December 27th, 2019 17:00
Yes kryonaut is way more safer, and i think i should repaste it. I havent done full thorough diagnostic test yet, i will update it ltr. For now i tested my vga card and its fan and with some basic scan. The result was good and errors.
Btw among bios version you have, which do you think works the best for you??
P.S: Currently iam using bios version 1.0.8
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Posted November 8th, 2022 21:00
Could just be the way the pictures look but figured I would atleast ask you what happened to that mother board cause alot of the chips look melted and even some of the traces on the board look shorted out…
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Posted December 24th, 2019 22:00
Repaste youself